Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Great fear is concealed under daring.